Afterlife

Afterlife

by SeanO'Brien (Author)

Synopsis

The seventies. Summer. Four students in a cottage in the middle of nowhere. Two young American women, one hell-bent on destruction. Alcohol, LSD, sex, jealousy, infidelity, and poetry. At the end of the summer, one of the four students will be dead, and another will be destroyed by his inability to let go of past memories, guilt and bitterness. 'A cracker' - "Evening Standard"; 'Chills to the bone' - "Independent on Sunday"; 'Rich and powerful' - "Daily Mail"; '"Afterlife" positively throbs with loss...It's a deeply absorbing novel that lingers in the mind like the ghosts it so ardently evokes' - Claire Kilroy, "Irish Times"; 'A richly rewarding portrait of friendships under siege, full of vibrant characters and atmospheres that linger in the mind and the heart' - "Sunday Telegraph".

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Publisher: Picador
Published: 06 Aug 2010

ISBN 10: 0330455672
ISBN 13: 9780330455671

Author Bio
Sean O'Brien is a poet, critic, playwright, broadcaster, anthologist and editor. He grew up in Hull and now lives in Newcastle upon Tyne; he is Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University. His six collections of poetry to date have all won awards, most recently The Drowned Book (Picador, 2007) which won both the Forward Prize for best collection and the T.S. Eliot Prize. Afterlife is his first novel